[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net v4 2/2] iavf: Fix out-of-bounds when setting channels on remove
Ding Hui
dinghui at sangfor.com.cn
Mon May 8 12:34:43 UTC 2023
On 2023/5/4 15:57, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 12:22:00PM -0700, Chittim, Madhu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/3/2023 9:29 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 10:00:49PM +0800, Ding Hui wrote:
>>>> On 2023/5/3 4:24 下午, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 11:15:41AM +0800, Ding Hui wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If we detected removing is in processing, we can avoid unnecessary
>>>>>> waiting and return error faster.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On the other hand in timeout handling, we should keep the original
>>>>>> num_active_queues and reset num_req_queues to 0.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fixes: 4e5e6b5d9d13 ("iavf: Fix return of set the new channel count")
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ding Hui <dinghui at sangfor.com.cn>
>>>>>> Cc: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin at sangfor.com.cn>
>>>>>> Cc: Huang Cun <huangcun at sangfor.com.cn>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at corigine.com>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak at intel.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> v3 to v4:
>>>>>> - nothing changed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> v2 to v3:
>>>>>> - fix review tag
>>>>>>
>>>>>> v1 to v2:
>>>>>> - add reproduction script
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c | 4 +++-
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c
>>>>>> index 6f171d1d85b7..d8a3c0cfedd0 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c
>>>>>> @@ -1857,13 +1857,15 @@ static int iavf_set_channels(struct net_device *netdev,
>>>>>> /* wait for the reset is done */
>>>>>> for (i = 0; i < IAVF_RESET_WAIT_COMPLETE_COUNT; i++) {
>>>>>> msleep(IAVF_RESET_WAIT_MS);
>>>>>> + if (test_bit(__IAVF_IN_REMOVE_TASK, &adapter->crit_section))
>>>>>> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>>>>
>>>>> This makes no sense without locking as change to __IAVF_IN_REMOVE_TASK
>>>>> can happen any time.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The state doesn't need to be that precise here, it is optimized only for
>>>> the fast path. During the lifecycle of the adapter, the __IAVF_IN_REMOVE_TASK
>>>> state will only be set and not cleared.
>>>>
>>>> If we didn't detect the "removing" state, we also can fallback to timeout
>>>> handling.
>>>>
>>>> So I don't think the locking is necessary here, what do the maintainers
>>>> at Intel think?
>>>
>>> I'm not Intel maintainer, but your change, explanation and the following
>>> line from your commit message aren't really aligned.
>>>
>>> [ 3510.400799] ==================================================================
>>> [ 3510.400820] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iavf_free_all_tx_resources+0x156/0x160 [iavf]
>>>
>>>
>>
>> __IAVF_IN_REMOVE_TASK is being set only in iavf_remove() and the above
>> change is ok in terms of coming out of setting channels early enough while
>> remove is in progress.
>
> It is not, __IAVF_IN_REMOVE_TASK, set bit can be changed any time during
> iavf_set_channels() and if it is not, I would expect test_bit(..) placed
> at the beginning of iavf_set_channels() or even earlier.
>
Since we have a little dispute on __IAVF_IN_REMOVE_TASK, I'll remove the
test_bit() in v5, and remove Reviewed-by: tags of 2/2 to review again.
--
Thanks,
- Ding Hui
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